Upgrade melee ASAP. The upgraded two-by-four is the ultimate equalizer, and you’ll want it right away. It’s capable of downing an enemy with one hit, cuts through armor, and you even get to keep it if you die! At the start of each match, your priority should be to find and upgrade a two-by-four — you’ll usually find one in the second salvage box you open. The Brawler survival skill is also strongly recommended.

Party hardly. When selecting your play mode, do yourself a favor and select the “no parties” matchmaking option. The toughest teams always roll in parties, and they’ll cut you down lickety-split. Taking them out of the equation will give you a fighting chance if you’re still learning the ropes.

Slow and steady. Walking and crouchwalking (Circle) are essential because they keep you off the enemy’s radar so you can sneak in for a surprise kill. Then, when you spot an unsuspecting foe, don’t attack right away. Lull him into a false sense of security, then strike when he gets distracted or turns his back.

Starter skills. Sharpshooter is a great choice for any build focusing on precision weapons like the semi-auto rifle or revolver. Brawler and Crafter are also extremely valuable, and Explosives Expert are no-brainers if you’re handy with a molotov or bomb. But be sure to experiment — the survival skills are complex and multilayered.

Poison the well. Booby-trapping salvage boxes and health kits with bombs will keep enemy players off balance and paranoid. Salvage boxes make a particularly tempting target: they’re an essential resource for all players, and many players will drop their defenses when they spot one. Place your proximity mines cleverly, around key corners in inside grass clumps, and you’ll be racking up Parts in no time.

Heal early, heal often. When your health dips by a third or more, stop, drop, and heal. TLOU’s cautious play style will afford you many opportunities to patch yourself up — even mid-firefight — if you’re bold. Equipping First Aid Training helps, too. And remember: you can heal and move at the same time.

Armor apprehension. Tapping Select and then R1 enables you to purchase armor and ammo from the in-game store. Armor is a constant temptation, but it rises in price with each purchase so it’s best saved for the final minutes of a particularly close match. Most times, it’s better to funnel your Parts towards a weapon upgrade or two early on — you’ll gain a noticeable advantage that lasts for the whole match.

Smoke ‘em out. TLOU’s smoke bombs are ridiculously effective. Obviously, they produce clouds of smoke that obscure the battlefield and help route enemy movement. Better still, these stinky saviors will stun all nearby enemies. If you’ve got a Shiv, you’ll have a few seconds to score a one-hit kill from the front or the rear.

Live to give. Being generous with your teammates is not only nice, it’s rewarding! Every time you revive, heal, or gift an item to a teammate, you gain Parts — and they add up fast. The Crafter 2 survival skill is especially useful, rewarding you with rapid crafting speed and the ability to stock your friends with health and munitions for bonus Parts.

Lean in. Here’s a nuance many players miss: While aiming (L1), you can swap shoulders by tapping R2. With a little practice, you can use this to lean out from behind a corner to squeeze off a few shots from relative safety.

Down but never out. Take too much punishment and you’ll go down, dropping to your hands and knees as you await death. But you’re not helpless: you can scuttle away to be revived by a teammate, or lead your pursuers into a nearby ambush or bomb.

Pistol power. Lately, my favorite strategy has been to take the 9 millimeter or revolver and skip the larger primary weapons. This loadout brings a host of unique benefits: You’ll reclaim two Loadout Points for other use (say, a silencer); you’ll only need one type of ammo; and you’ll save buckets of Parts that you can invest elsewhere. If you go this route, fully upgrade your pistol early in the match (it’s only 800 Parts) to gain greatly increased accuracy, fire rate, clip size, and stability.

Winter boss fight was finished in about 30 seconds lol
Hospital was done in about 5 minutes full stealth mode
Messed up on the salt lake city infected tunnel and somehow killed everything and survived? lol
So many spots i should have died i felt like i was playing on easy, but just got survivor+ trophy!

Winter boss fight was finished in about 30 seconds lol
Hospital was done in about 5 minutes full stealth mode
Messed up on the salt lake city infected tunnel and somehow killed everything and survived? lol
So many spots i should have died i felt like i was playing on easy, but just got survivor+ trophy!

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I'm on my Hard+ play-through and I still can't quite tell which parts I can totally sneak through and which ones I can't. There's been times I'd get to the goal unnoticed but for some random reason it would just go to a cut scene with Ellie dying and I have to start over. So annoying when I have a good run and have to try again..

Winter boss fight was finished in about 30 seconds lol
Hospital was done in about 5 minutes full stealth mode
Messed up on the salt lake city infected tunnel and somehow killed everything and survived? lol
So many spots i should have died i felt like i was playing on easy, but just got survivor+ trophy!

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I'm on my Hard+ play-through and I still can't quite tell which parts I can totally sneak through and which ones I can't. There's been times I'd get to the goal unnoticed but for some random reason it would just go to a cut scene with Ellie dying and I have to start over. So annoying when I have a good run and have to try again..

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Yeah the game was doing some weird glitches. I finished 4 hours quicker though than my previous two playthroughs. I found on survivor that if you shoot and kill people and don't have ammo, the next guy or two will drop ammo anyways. I went through my first playthrough hardly ever firing a shot bc I was scared I wouldn't find anymore ammo. And I never did bc I always had too much. But i literally didn't die at all in the hospital. I just walked right through it.

i just started my survival walkthrough , i noticed i cant use listen mode , also runners notic my flashlight ??

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Not sure, but I thought the flashlight was ok. I knew about the listen mode not being in survival, but not about the flashlight part.

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i get easily detected by the runners now , also did u notice there is a glitch with the hunting rifle in multiplayer ... when u r aiming right at some1 and shot it doesnt always hit

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OK. Tell me your loadout set up with the hunting rifle. Cause the one thing I forgot was the sway of guns when aiming. That might be the cause of you missing as it mechanics are set up for your gun sway in directions decreasing the accuracy of it. However, upgrading it and using Sharp Shooter 3 will make a world of difference. I still haven't had any trouble using it as I've kind of made a set up for it now. I had a awesome game going 7-7-1. All of them being head shots. Next time you use it though, just aim, and you'll see the sway I'm talking about.

Not sure, but I thought the flashlight was ok. I knew about the listen mode not being in survival, but not about the flashlight part.

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i get easily detected by the runners now , also did u notice there is a glitch with the hunting rifle in multiplayer ... when u r aiming right at some1 and shot it doesnt always hit

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OK. Tell me your loadout set up with the hunting rifle. Cause the one thing I forgot was the sway of guns when aiming. That might be the cause of you missing as it mechanics are set up for your gun sway in directions decreasing the accuracy of it. However, upgrading it and using Sharp Shooter 3 will make a world of difference. I still haven't had any trouble using it as I've kind of made a set up for it now. I had a awesome game going 7-7-1. All of them being head shots. Next time you use it though, just aim, and you'll see the sway I'm talking about.

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ya i noticed that sharpshooter reduces damage wobble , which i suffer from , but now am using silenced semi auto and its great , i use haunting rifle for big maps like lakeside

i get easily detected by the runners now , also did u notice there is a glitch with the hunting rifle in multiplayer ... when u r aiming right at some1 and shot it doesnt always hit

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OK. Tell me your loadout set up with the hunting rifle. Cause the one thing I forgot was the sway of guns when aiming. That might be the cause of you missing as it mechanics are set up for your gun sway in directions decreasing the accuracy of it. However, upgrading it and using Sharp Shooter 3 will make a world of difference. I still haven't had any trouble using it as I've kind of made a set up for it now. I had a awesome game going 7-7-1. All of them being head shots. Next time you use it though, just aim, and you'll see the sway I'm talking about.

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ya i noticed that sharpshooter reduces damage wobble , which i suffer from , but now am using silenced semi auto and its great , i use haunting rifle for big maps like lakeside

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Yea, it's pretty much a must to use with the Hunting Rifle and Military sniper rifle. That's one of my main builds is a Covert Semi Auto silenced.

Jumped back into mp after a few weeks off, sucked at first, but after a few rounds I was back to leading my team. And I have given up trying to get the skull mask, so i'm gonna start experimenting with different loadouts.

I think I am at 111 members in week 11 day 6. I have like 11 sick and 75 hungry since the clan thing is broken and you get penalized simply because you joined a late game in matchmaking.

I had a great moment today and a shit moment. Great moment, I am on Bill's Town. We lose bad on rounds 1 and 2. We spawn and I go to the left, through the bar. A teammate gifts me 2 molotovs and a bomb. I create another bomb. The 2 ass whipping rounds must have instilled the enemy team with great confidence because they rush that little room in the bar down by the stairs that you have to crawl through the open window to get into. 3 guys in that little room and I have 2 molotovs and 2 bombs. You can guess what happened.

We won 4 rounds to 2. And that was another time I completely forgot about a hunter strike challenge and was on day 3/3. I got all 20 heals in the last few rounds.

Bad moment, Checkpoint. Some dude is lagging his ass off. He climbs up onto that little gap on the side of the map that people climb up on. I go up there with a one hit melee upgrade. You can guess what happened.

I get the parts and credit for the kill, he falls to the ground with some holes in his head, and I kick him twice to finish him off. Then he GETS BACK UP AND KILLS ME. Then he drops down and kills a teammate. Finally the other two teammates corner him in the middle tented area. You can guess what happened.

Wrong! He collapsed and died with no one touching him, I assume from me beating him to death until he died from it earlier in the round. The rest of the game he sat up there and we killed him from afar.

i just started week 5 and i got 90 survivors , what happens if i finished week 12 with alots if survivors ???

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Naughty Dog chooses random winner every month and invites him for a free blow. You gotta buy your own ticket back home though. Still not a bad deal.

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thats a joke right ?? , really though i just wanna know what happens if i finished with healthy survivors .

i noticed something that even if u lose a match but u r the only in ur team who killed people u get supplies , and if ur team won a match and u did nothing u get less amount of supplies

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You also get a 500 parts increase if you're the last one standing. If you can get a supply crate when you're the last one standing, you'll get Molotov's and Bombs already built. Sometimes a good way to rack up a lot of points at the end. I've gotten around 2k before at the end before I finally died.

Naughty Dog chooses random winner every month and invites him for a free blow. You gotta buy your own ticket back home though. Still not a bad deal.

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thats a joke right ?? , really though i just wanna know what happens if i finished with healthy survivors .

i noticed something that even if u lose a match but u r the only in ur team who killed people u get supplies , and if ur team won a match and u did nothing u get less amount of supplies

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You also get a 500 parts increase if you're the last one standing. If you can get a supply crate when you're the last one standing, you'll get Molotov's and Bombs already built. Sometimes a good way to rack up a lot of points at the end. I've gotten around 2k before at the end before I finally died.

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to be honest sometimes i hate last one standing people , some of them do it on purpose and they do not help their team , they just stay in the back and hide

If playing with randoms, a lot of times no one is helping the team. I try to find which one will stick with others and follow them. Most of the time the match starts and everybody just goes separate ways. I will not be team friendly to someone who is constantly running.

If playing with randoms, a lot of times no one is helping the team. I try to find which one will stick with others and follow them. Most of the time the match starts and everybody just goes separate ways. I will not be team friendly to someone who is constantly running.

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If everybody runs separate ways in the beginning that means that you're playing with some COD zombies that for some reason got lost and turned on TLOU by mistake. Lost game 9/10 times.

thats a joke right ?? , really though i just wanna know what happens if i finished with healthy survivors .

i noticed something that even if u lose a match but u r the only in ur team who killed people u get supplies , and if ur team won a match and u did nothing u get less amount of supplies

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You also get a 500 parts increase if you're the last one standing. If you can get a supply crate when you're the last one standing, you'll get Molotov's and Bombs already built. Sometimes a good way to rack up a lot of points at the end. I've gotten around 2k before at the end before I finally died.

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to be honest sometimes i hate last one standing people , some of them do it on purpose and they do not help their team , they just stay in the back and hide

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That's complete crap. I hate when I play with morons like that. 1st of all they haven't done shit for the whole game, so we are loosing 10-1 lets say. And the idiot starts hiding and stays camped for the reminder of the game. At least try to take some folks down, do something. If I see I'm the one, I make sure I go out with the bang!

That's complete crap. I hate when I play with morons like that. 1st of all they haven't done shit for the whole game, so we are loosing 10-1 lets say. And the idiot starts hiding and stays camped for the reminder of the game. At least try to take some folks down, do something. If I see I'm the one, I make sure I go out with the bang!

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Some ppl just dont need to be playing tlou. You can tell who's played the game on normal, survivor, or not at all.

That's complete crap. I hate when I play with morons like that. 1st of all they haven't done shit for the whole game, so we are loosing 10-1 lets say. And the idiot starts hiding and stays camped for the reminder of the game. At least try to take some folks down, do something. If I see I'm the one, I make sure I go out with the bang!

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Some ppl just dont need to be playing tlou. You can tell who's played the game on normal, survivor, or not at all.

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I don't really care what they've been doing in single player. Just saying, if you're the last man standing, go out there and do something. Try to kill a guy or two, hell kill'em them all if you're able (not gonna happen it's not COD). But don't just sit hidden like a moron and waste everybody's time.

I don't really care what they've been doing in single player. Just saying, if you're the last man standing, go out there and do something. Try to kill a guy or two, hell kill'em them all if you're able (not gonna happen it's not COD). But don't just sit hidden like a moron and waste everybody's time.

I played the MP for hours and hours before even touching the SP. I don't think you need to play SP to be good at MP, especially since there are no zombies in MP. And the SP AI is terrible so even the dumbest online enemy is more challenging than a survivor in SP.

It might get you more used to the crafting/supply element, but I think I picked up fine on that quickly and others could too. Some people just like to camp their asses off no matter what game.

That's complete crap. I hate when I play with morons like that. 1st of all they haven't done shit for the whole game, so we are loosing 10-1 lets say. And the idiot starts hiding and stays camped for the reminder of the game. At least try to take some folks down, do something. If I see I'm the one, I make sure I go out with the bang!

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Some ppl just dont need to be playing tlou. You can tell who's played the game on normal, survivor, or not at all.

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I don't really care what they've been doing in single player. Just saying, if you're the last man standing, go out there and do something. Try to kill a guy or two, hell kill'em them all if you're able (not gonna happen it's not COD). But don't just sit hidden like a moron and waste everybody's time.

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this is exactly my point some people just wanna be last one standing for the extra parts , am pretty sure they dont know how to take out 4 players alone

Some ppl just dont need to be playing tlou. You can tell who's played the game on normal, survivor, or not at all.

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I don't really care what they've been doing in single player. Just saying, if you're the last man standing, go out there and do something. Try to kill a guy or two, hell kill'em them all if you're able (not gonna happen it's not COD). But don't just sit hidden like a moron and waste everybody's time.

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this is exactly my point some people just wanna be last one standing for the extra parts , am pretty sure they dont know how to take out 4 players alone

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it's pretty hard to take down 4 guys by yourself. I've done it, but it's not easy. you gotta split them up, hit and run. it's a super intense feeling for about 2 or 3 minutes lol.

I'm actually OK with somebody on my team hiding. Most of the time it's the worst player or what not that's hiding. So I don't have to worry about him costing us lives every for seconds. I've played with randoms that have been died 11+ times and you have no chance when that happens. So if they want to hide, be my quest, more kills for me and parts in the long run. That 500 doesn't justify shit if you haven't done anything during the game. It's only 10 supplies. I can make that in the first 2-3 minutes of the game.

However, hope the next patch gives the winning team a good bonus. People keep saying it's already in the game, but I don't see it.

Still waiting, but a patch is suppose to be released either tomorrow for first of next week. Not sure what the details of it is yet, but ND has stated it was coming. Hopefully give us some details on the first DLC once it hits.

Still waiting, but a patch is suppose to be released either tomorrow for first of next week. Not sure what the details of it is yet, but ND has stated it was coming. Hopefully give us some details on the first DLC once it hits.

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i wish they do something like black ops 2 tranzit , u go to places to collect supplies or u can stay in the same place and dont risk going out searching for supplies

I was afraid of starting a new game because I don't want to lose all of my upgrades and stuff for Survivor so I just kept trying Continue.

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Sorry, I shouldn't laugh, but that's kinda funny.

But, yeah, you'll keep your old save file if you start a new game. When you start your new game, and select the difficulty, it will ask you to create a new save file. Just make a new save file, and don't overwrite your other one. Then you'll be set!

I was afraid of starting a new game because I don't want to lose all of my upgrades and stuff for Survivor so I just kept trying Continue.

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Sorry, I shouldn't laugh, but that's kinda funny.

But, yeah, you'll keep your old save file if you start a new game. When you start your new game, and select the difficulty, it will ask you to create a new save file. Just make a new save file, and don't overwrite your other one. Then you'll be set!

Have fun, dood!

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So when I start my first Survivor play through will I have all my upgrades to Joel and the weapons or is it like starting over on a clean slate? And if I have two separate save files will they both contain the same accumulative statistics or will they be different information?

I was afraid of starting a new game because I don't want to lose all of my upgrades and stuff for Survivor so I just kept trying Continue.

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Sorry, I shouldn't laugh, but that's kinda funny.

But, yeah, you'll keep your old save file if you start a new game. When you start your new game, and select the difficulty, it will ask you to create a new save file. Just make a new save file, and don't overwrite your other one. Then you'll be set!

Have fun, dood!

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So when I start my first Survivor play through will I have all my upgrades to Joel and the weapons or is it like starting over on a clean slate? And if I have two separate save files will they both contain the same accumulative statistics or will they be different information?

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You keep all collectables (even though you can find them and pick them up again). As for weapons and upgrades, you start fresh on each (basic) difficulty level. You won't even have access to them until the same point in the story.

If you keep all of your weapons and upgrades you may as well just play it on easy. You are going to find that survivor isn't all that difficult since you know what you are doing now anyway. Just limited supplies really.

Had some awesome games over the weekend. I was by myself with 4 left on the other team. Lakeside was the map. I managed to get a supply crate and move behind the building at the bottom of the map. I laid a bomb right behind the building. One person come running on the left side of it. It's a little duck walk way, so I lobbed a Molotov and killed him. Next two came the same way with armor. I shot both of them in the legs knocking them down. I ran towards them not looking for the last person and he ran behind the building as I left it. Bomb killed him and we won the game. This was with a random's team.

The next two were with my buddy and cousin. Went 12-11-0 and then we beat a team 20-0. I cut it off for the night after that happen. Both of them games were at The Dam.

Quick question about the factions:
If I want to play with my mates do we always need to be playing on the same faction (i.e. hunters/fireflies)? Or is it possible to switch factions and play for the other guys.

Quick question about the factions:
If I want to play with my mates do we always need to be playing on the same faction (i.e. hunters/fireflies)? Or is it possible to switch factions and play for the other guys.

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You can play with them no matter which faction they are on. The goal is to complete your 12 weeks by keeping all your clan members alive.

Quick question about the factions:
If I want to play with my mates do we always need to be playing on the same faction (i.e. hunters/fireflies)? Or is it possible to switch factions and play for the other guys.

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You can play with them no matter which faction they are on. The goal is to complete your 12 weeks by keeping all your clan members alive.

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Wait, I'm not only playing with fireflies on my own team? I seem to always start in the same end of the maps so I just assumed ...

Quick question about the factions:
If I want to play with my mates do we always need to be playing on the same faction (i.e. hunters/fireflies)? Or is it possible to switch factions and play for the other guys.

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You can play with them no matter which faction they are on. The goal is to complete your 12 weeks by keeping all your clan members alive.

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Wait, I'm not only playing with fireflies on my own team? I seem to always start in the same end of the maps so I just assumed ...

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No, it's all random once the game starts. It will self pick but your colors will be what you picked prior. Fireflies are yellow, and Hunters are blue.

1 more thing , i should naughtydog should remove the survivors thing , the multiplayer is frustrating enough and this adds to the frustration
and in the single player i can turn 180 degrees in one move by pressing x and down i guess , why i cant do that in the multiplayer , i see a guy behind me running with a shive but i cant turn around